February 2007 - Posts

Behind The Code
23 February 07 10:00 AM | ricom | 4 Comments   

When you're a person like me, who works on programming tools, I think it's fair to say that there are not too many days when you can come home to your children, tell them about your day, and they say something like "Wow, cool!" However, today is one of Read More...

Filed under: performance, recommendations

Synchronization Complexity in the .NET Framework
16 February 07 01:30 PM | ricom | 11 Comments   

Several people here (you know who you are) have been nagging me to do an analysis similar to the one I did for allocations but to get an idea of which methods might do locking and how much. So I repeated my experiment, this time counting any calls to Read More...

Filed under: performance, signatures

Performance Problems Survery -- Results
08 February 07 06:17 PM | ricom | 11 Comments   

OK here's the respones to my highly non-scientific survey Your project is "In Trouble." The Big Boss has just walked into your office and told you that he needs you to save the day. Which of the following is more likely the culprit of this crisis that Read More...

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Performance Signatures CMG 2006 Paper
07 February 07 11:18 AM | ricom | 7 Comments   

I presented this paper at the CMG 2006 conference. I've previously posted the content of my slides and some interesting results from using this sort of analysis but I thought you might like to see the paper in full. Comments are of course welcome. PERFORMANCE Read More...

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Performance Problems Survey
02 February 07 03:38 PM | ricom | 31 Comments   

Gentle Readers, see if you can comment on the following Hypothetical Situation: Your project is "In Trouble." The Big Boss has just walked into your office and told you that he needs you to save the day. Again? Which of the following is more likely the Read More...

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